{"id":258,"date":"2026-09-21T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/recipes\/cola-fizz-jelly-sweets\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T08:45:31","slug":"cola-fizz-jelly-sweets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/recipes\/cola-fizz-jelly-sweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cola Fizz Jelly Sweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homemade jelly sweets with that proper fizzy cola bottle taste. The citric acid in the coating is what gives you the fizz on your tongue, so do not skip it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Makes about 40 \u00b7 30 minutes plus setting \u00b7 Easy<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>You will need<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>200g caster sugar<\/li>\n<li>150ml water<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsp glucose syrup (or golden syrup)<\/li>\n<li>4 tsp powdered gelatine, bloomed in 4 tbsp cold water<\/li>\n<li>2ml <a href=\"\/shop\/product\/cola-fizz\/\">Cola Fizz flavouring<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For the coating: 4 tbsp caster sugar mixed with half a tsp citric acid<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>How to make them<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Gently heat the sugar, water and glucose syrup until the sugar dissolves. Do not boil it hard.<\/li>\n<li>Take it off the heat and stir in the bloomed gelatine until it melts completely.<\/li>\n<li>Stir in the Cola Fizz flavouring off the heat, so it does not cook off.<\/li>\n<li>Pour into silicone moulds or a lined small tray. Chill at least 2 hours until firm.<\/li>\n<li>Pop them out and roll in the citric sugar coating. Done.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Counter tip:<\/strong> keep them in an airtight tub and they will last a week. In practice they last about a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homemade jelly sweets with that proper fizzy cola bottle taste. The citric acid in the coating is what gives you the fizz on your tongue, so do not skip it. Makes about 40 \u00b7 30 minutes plus setting \u00b7 Easy You will need 200g caster sugar 150ml water 2 tbsp glucose syrup (or golden syrup) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":256,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/switchflavours.co.uk\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}